Originally Posted by
AirRabbit
Having my own membership card in the “professional gas-passers union” (active in the late 1960s through the early 1970s) I can say that, while the Ops Manual didn’t have a specific note in the text, a flight crew member couldn’t get through the “ground school” classes taught at Castle AFB without hearing (and I think my eardrums are still scarred) about the effectiveness of the rudder on that airplane, and how virtually ANY movement of it (powered or unpowered) was to be VERY sparingly used … and NEVER reversed!!!
I guess you missed my post in which I posted an excerpt from the revision to the KC-135 Dash one, which said exactly that. I even posted the issue date, which, being 30 June 2000, would have been after you were no longer flying that airplane (But well before the AA587 crash)
Here's a link to that document.
I think we agree here on the larger question, you're just mistaken in claiming my specific information is inaccurate.